Artribune Magazine Spring Issue: Reports from Kenya and Armenia

The new issue of Artribune Magazine features two special reports from distant latitudes. Lisa Chiari and Roberto Ruta travel to Nairobi, Kenya, highlighting the cultural potential and rising independent young energies. Galleries, cultural centers, foundations, and artistic collectives are shaping the face of 21st-century Africa, intertwined with anti-colonialism, redemption, regeneration, identity, and renewal. This is coupled with the decline of dictatorships, slow economic expansion, and a growing desire for democracy. Notable figures include Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor, director of the 2015 Venice Biennale, and artist Michael Soi (b. 1972), known for his socially critical work; his series 'China loves Africa' has appeared in major auction houses, international museums, and important private collections. Another report by Claudia Zanfi explores Yerevan, Armenia, a chaotic city growing in the shadow of sacred Mount Ararat (5,200 meters high with perennial snows). The report walks through layered architecture from Byzantine quarters to Soviet blocks, visits museums including the Cascade-Cafesjian Art Foundation with hanging gardens and structures carved into the hill, and highlights new generations of artists and mystical landscapes dotted with lakes and rocky massifs housing some of Armenia's most fascinating monasteries.